I heard that on an apple you can drag applications from the finder window onto an external hard drive, and then you'd have the whole program copied onto your hard drive so you would then be able to install that program on another apple machine, is this correct?
2007-07-14 23:18:03 · 4 answers · asked by chembeh 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I don't think so, never tried it. But if you save the downloaded ".dmg" files to an external drive, you can install them on another Mac. I have done that and it works, as long as the OS version is the same.
2007-07-14 23:23:41 · answer #1 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some applications like M$ Office and I think PhotoShop install files all over the hard drive and just transferring their application icons to an external drive would leave them useless. As a previous answerer stated you can transfer the downloaded .dmg files to an external and install them in another Mac without any problems, unless they are PPC apps and the Mac that you want to install them is an Intel Mac.
2007-07-15 02:56:01 · answer #2 · answered by Elbert 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes sir that is correct! Make sure you invest in EBOOK or a external hard drive that has built in drives so when you drag the file, it will prompt you to transfer over the install file in order to install the program from your external hard drive.
A good price one, does all of it for you! So that you can use your external hard drive to install multiple programs in different imacs...
2007-07-14 23:27:59 · answer #3 · answered by . 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the application is a setup file
2007-07-14 23:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋